Invalidity · first instance · 2023-10-26
000120379
Contested design: 002416248-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 002416248-0003 is rejected. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
WIND-DAM Filip Piórowskivia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Bartosza Wojciecha Głowackiego, nr 2, lok. 4, 82200 Malbork, Poland
Represented by
Marcin Staniszewski
Holder · RCD owner
Ergosafe Aktiebolag
Sweden (SE)
Reparatörgatan 1, 302 62 Halmstad, Sweden
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
Adjustable Glass Railing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0O2r2FLJfo · YouTube · disclosed 2012-04-16
adjustable glass railing design shown in YouTube screenshots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxv1nwuDbco · YouTube
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant claimed lack of novelty and individual character over two earlier YouTube-disclosed adjustable glass railing designs and also invoked technical-function and interconnection grounds.
- ›Holder argued the cited disclosures were incomplete or not properly invoked, denied identity or the same overall impression, and contested the applicant's late-added evidence as inadmissible.
- ›The Division admitted D1 and D2 as internet disclosures under Article 7, but found D1 not identical and D2 created a different overall impression because of frameless panels and lighter posts.
- ›The Article 8 grounds were not assessed for lack of substantiation, and the invalidity application was rejected with costs against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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